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Author: Ashton, Robert

Biography:

ASHTON, Robert (fl 1728)

A prior author who may have been a shoemaker in Dublin although he was also said to have been an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin when his popular The Battle of Aughrim was first published in 1728. (DIB 5 Jan. 2021) SR

 

Other Names:

  • Ashton
 

Books written (2):

The Battle of Aughrim, or the Fall of Monsieur St. Ruth, with Ireland Preserved . . . to Which is Added, the Deserted Village . . . ..

Baltimore: John Montague, 1824

The Battle of Aughrim, or the Fall of Monsieur St. Ruth: With Ireland Preserved . . . . To Which is Added, the Deserted Village.

1st American from the 20th Dublin edn. Rochester [NY]: printed by Edwin Scranton, 1827